Railway-tie.



P. SIPGHEN, G. W. REMER & C. PRIBSTER.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.1z, 191s.

THE NORRIS PF1-mu ca.. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. n. c,

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

PETER SIPCHEN AND GEORGE W. ROEMER, OF CHICAGO, AND CHARLES PRIESTER, 0F OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914;.

Application filed November 12, 1913., 4 Serial No. 800,626.

- of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and

State of Illinois, and of the city of Oak Park, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

Cur invention relates to improvements in railway ties and has for its object the provision of a railway tie so constructed as to serve to support the rails conveniently and prevent electrical communication therebetween.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a railway tie embodying our invention, and showing rail sections secured thereto, Fig. 2, an enlarged section taken on line mof Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a perspective view of the inner end of one of the outer portions of said tie, and Fig. 4c, a perspective view of the corresponding end of the other portion of the tie.

The preferred form of construction as illustrated in the drawing comprises a railway tie made up of two end sections 1 and 2 detachably secured together. Tie sections 1 and 2 are generally in the form ofv I-beams and are provided with suitable clamping means 3 arranged to clamp the rails 4 thereon as will be readily understood. The specie form of the rail clamping means constitutes no part of our present invention' and needs no further description here, it being sufficient to state that any suitable or desired clamping means may be employed.

The tie section 1 is provided at its inner end with an inwardly opening socket 5 which is shaped to snugly receive a correspondingly shaped head 6 on the inner end of the tie section 2. Head 6 is separated and insulated from the corresponding socket 5 by means of a sheet 7 of insulating material which is shaped to conform with said socket and head and is interposed therebetween.

Suitable bolt holes 8 and 9 are provided in heads 6 and socket members 5 and securing bolts 10 are passed therethrough for detachably securing the tie sections together. The openings 9 in socket member 5 are considerably larger than bolts 10 and a perforated securing plate 11 is arranged against the outer faces of each of the socket members 5 on each side of each of the tie sections l to receive the corresponding bolts 10 as shown in Fig. 2. Each of the plates 11 is insulated from the corresponding socket member 5 by means of perforated sheets 12 of insulating material placed therebetween.

By the arrangement set forth the railway rails may be conveniently and securely secured to the ties and thus to the road bed and at the same time insulated from each other for convenience in installing automatic danger signals or the like.

While we have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying our invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without kdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

We, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail ourselves of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claim.'

' Having described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A railway tie comprising two sections, each provided with means for securing a rail thereto and one section being provided with an inwardly opening socket formed integrally with its inner end; a head formed integrally with the inner end of the other section and iitting the corresponding socket; a sheet of insulating material interposed between said head and socket; and bolts detachably securing said head in said socket,

' substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER SIPCHEN. GEORGE W. ROEMER. CHARLES PRIESTER. Witnesses:

JosHUA R. H. PoT'rs, B. G. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, ZD. C. 

